The Consolation of Philosophy

Ancius Boethius

Some of the editions contain a reproduction of a bust purporting to

represent Boethius. Lord Preston's translation, for example, has such a

portrait, which it refers to an original in marble at Rome. This I have

been unable to trace, and suspect that it is apocryphal. The Hope

Collection at Oxford contains a completely different portrait in a

print, which gives no authority. I have ventured to use as a

frontispiece a reproduction from a plaster-cast in the Ashmolean Museum

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